| Issue 15 - June & July 2022
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| A Message from our Office
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| Message from the Associate Director of GPII and Senior Advisor to the Puerto Rico Research Hub
Global Women’s Think Tank Kicks Off
The GPII team has joined forces with Karama, an established and respected women’s rights organization working mostly in Africa and the Middle East, to launch the Global Women’s Think Tank (GWTT). Karama’s president and founder Hibaaq Osman visited Orlando this June where she and the team connected with UCF faculty and staff, community leaders, and friends of GPII through a host of convening including a roundtable and community panel presentation. The group then traveled to Washington, DC to meet with think tanks, government officials, and allies to introduce the think tank. The series of events and conversations led to several insights that informed what we have developed as GWTT’s mission statement and goals to date.
The Global Women’s Think Tank aims to advance women’s rights through research-informed work, leadership development, and strengthening institutions’ infrastructure. In partnership with the University of Central Florida, we work across sectors to move the needle on peace, security, and gender equity. Using a collective impact approach, we inform policy, convene and support movement leaders, and identify opportunities to amplify and scale the work across the globe. We also open debates on global policy and build bridges to decision makers with organizations and individuals working on the ground.
While maintaining a global lens, we foster exchange and collaboration among women’s rights groups and organizations in the Latin American & Caribbean (LAC), Africa,the Middle East regions, and among US diasporas representing those groups domestically. Additionally, we strive to support ideas and partnerships between practitioners and scholars to help inform and strengthen one another’s areas of work, produce more engaged and action-oriented scholars, and together influence policy and interventions – which ultimately improve the lives of women, families, and communities. Finally, we aspire to develop individuals’ capacity and institutional infrastructure across sectors to lead on issues focusing on women’s rights, quality of life, and all the elements shaping governance.
Having done extensive work in advocating for human rights, serving marginalized communities, and devoting most of my career to strengthening grassroots organizations, I am excited about GWTT and elevating women’s issues on campus and beyond. We believe GWTT can build upon the incredible work of UCF’s Women and Gender Studies Programs, which has 75 affiliated faculty members, and other trailblazers across UCF and in the surrounding community. This incredible wealth of knowledge, coupled with our global partners, has great potential to make a real difference. Please stay tuned to GPII for future updates and activities about this critically important new initiative.
Our conversations continue as we set plans for GWTT’s activities and events for the Fall semester. If you are interested in joining this effort, please email us at: global@ucf.edu.
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– Zoé Colón, Associate Director, Senior Advisor to the UCF Puerto Rico Research Hub
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UCF Global Perspectives TV Show Receives National Award
By Katie Coronado, Special Advisor, Latin America and Media Outreach
WUCF television show Global Perspectives featuring former Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Doug Wise, is a Bronze Winner in Television in the category of Political/Commentary in the 43rd Annual Telly Awards.
Economists, politicians, journalists, and diplomats bring their view of the world to you on Global Perspectives, an award-winning interview program, hosted by David Dumke, an experienced Middle East Specialist, and journalist, Katie Coronado. From international trade to immigration reform, Global Perspectives delves weekly into topics of worldwide importance and local impact.
The Telly Awards honors excellence in video and television across all screens and is judged by leaders from video platforms, television, streaming networks, production companies and including Adobe, Netflix, Dow Jones, Duplass Brothers Productions, Complex Networks, Jennifer Garner, A&E Networks, Hearst Media, and Nickelodeon.
“Now, more than ever, it is necessary to celebrate video work that reflects the top tier of our industry, such as Global Perspectives,” says Telly Awards Executive Director Sabrina Dridje. “It is an honor to be recognized for our work. International stories and guests are at the center of this television show because we understand the importance of bringing these topics to our Central Florida community and beyond,” said Katie Coronado.
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GPII Visits Morocco
UCF delegates including Mirvate El Jerdi, GPII’s Special Advisor for MENA, and Dr. Rochelle Hurt, Assistant Professor with UCF English Department, visited Morocco to promote UCF and GPII in the 4th International Haiku Symposium at the University of New England's Tangier Campus. The symposium was a mosaic of art, culture, music, research, literature, and poetry with participants from the Middle East, Africa, and North America. El Jerdi discussed UCF, GPII, and the UCF – Moroccan collaboration and partnership while Dr. Hurt shared her expertise on integrating poetry and Haiku in her creative writing classes. During their time in Tangier, they joined Mr. Abdelkader El Jamoussi, the Moroccan consul general in New York, for a visit to the Tangier American Legation Museum, the only US National Historic Landmark located in a foreign country, where they were welcomed by Jennifer Rasamimanana, the former US Consul General in Casablanca. El Jerdi also visited Al Akhawayn University to explore areas of collaboration and expand engagement. She ended her visit in Rabat where she held meetings with several exceptional women leaders who will play a crucial part in advancing the UCF-Moroccan collaboration.
You can follow Mirvate’s Moroccan Journey on UCF GPII’s social media:
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UCF Puerto Rico Research Hub and TD Charitable Foundation Continued Partnership
The Puerto Rico Research Hub (PRRH) at UCF is excited to announce the renewal of the $10,000 grant by TD Charitable Foundation to invest in the Hispanic Business Education and Training (HBEAT) program in 2022. The PRRH will host a second HBEAT cohort program to train small business owners and entrepreneurs at no cost to the participants. The HBEAT financial education cohort program consists of a six - week curriculum. The program will be held at the UCF Downtown Campus and the National Entrepreneur Center in downtown Orlando, where a cohort of up to 25 participants will be hosted.
The purpose of the program is to build a community of support resources and continuing education opportunities for Hispanic businesses and aspiring business owners, in collaboration with the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metro Orlando (HCCMO) and other community leaders and entrepreneur facilitators.
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Pixote Reading Technology Laboratory: Making a Difference in Brazil
The Partners of the Americas Foundation and Stephen Murphy awarded $5,000 that allowed Katie Coronado, GPII’s Latin America and Media Outreach and a faculty at UCF’s Nicholson School of Communication and Media, to start the Pixote Reading Technology Laboratory in the Imaculada Curaçao de Maria Diocese in Sao Paulo, Brazil. More than 200 children who attend classes at the church will have access to this reading lab which is now equipped with new tablets in a newly created learning space. The Reading Technology lab was inaugurated at the church in the city of Piracicaba this past June.
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Dr. Crisman’s Fulbright Scholar Flex Award for Sustainable Agriculture in Morocco
Dr. Thomas L. Crisman, GPII’s Non-Resident Fellow just returned from two months in Marrakech, Morocco, where he was working with the High Atlas Foundation (HAF) as the first part of his Fulbright Scholar Flex program. HAF is dedicated to planting fruit trees raised in nurseries throughout Morocco to bolster local economies and communities, however, must be prepared to meet shifts in major biozones as a result of progressive climate change. Crisman’s work focuses on the water responses to climate change in MENA, and the results of his work will assist HAF with selecting tree species adapted to changing water and temperature throughout Morocco. The second phase of his Fulbright award will be spent at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco early in 2023.
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A Woman’s Place: Language and Literature Alive in Argentina
Dr. Fernando I. Rivera, the Director of the Puerto Rico Research Hub at UCF is participating in A Woman's Place: Language and Literature Alive in Argentina funded by the Fulbright-Hays Projects Abroad Program for the month of July. This residence program focuses on “culture, economics, politics and history as a means to understand the role and realities of women in Argentina as keepers of family history and pioneers within society”
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Global Perspectives TV Show
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UCF Global Perspectives Hosts The Honorable Tom Petri & The Honorable Loretta Sanchez
As former members of Congress, The Honorable Tom Petri and Loretta Sanchez
reflect back on their time as servant leaders in The House of Representatives. Plus,
Petri and Sanchez remain hopeful for bi-partisan civility due to the most recent
restrictions and political divides between the public and other members of the
house.
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UCF Global Perspectives Hosts Professor Agreement Jotia, University of Botswana
Acting Dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Botswana,
Professor Agreement Jotia, discusses the importance of education within the
country. Jotia illustrates Botswana's deliberate approach to promoting multi-cultural
diversity and how citizens embrace global competency by focusing on human resource development.
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